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Sam Altman, standing in front of a large window, gestures with one hand and furrows his brow as he speaks.
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OpenAI is hiring a ‘head of preparedness’ with a $550,000 salary to mitigate AI dangers that CEO Sam Altman warns will be ‘stressful’

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YouTube’s cofounder and former tech boss doesn’t want his kids to watch short videos, warning short-form content ‘equates to shorter attention spans’
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YouTube’s cofounder and former tech boss doesn’t want his kids to watch short videos, warning short-form content ‘equates to shorter attention spans’

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December 29, 2025
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is ‘envious’ of Gen Z college dropouts who have the ‘mental space’ and time to build new startups

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December 28, 2025
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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space

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December 23, 2025
OpenAI sees better margins on business sales, report says
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OpenAI sees better margins on business sales, report says

By Mark Bergen and Bloomberg
December 21, 2025
OpenAI vs. Apple? Sam Altman is setting his sights on winning what could be an even higher-stakes AI battle
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OpenAI vs. Apple? Sam Altman is setting his sights on winning what could be an even higher-stakes AI battle

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December 20, 2025
Sam Altman looks down and to the side, frowning.
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Sam Altman says he’s ‘0%’ excited to be CEO of a public company as OpenAI drops hints about an IPO: ‘In some ways I think it’d be really annoying’

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December 19, 2025
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Inside OpenAI’s fragile lead in the AI race, and the 8-week ‘code red’ to fend off a resurgent Google

By Jeremy Kahn, Alexei Oreskovic and Lee Clifford
December 17, 2025
Oracle chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the 2019 Oracle OpenWorld on September 16, 2019 in San Francisco, California.
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Oracle’s collapsing stock shows the AI boom is running into two hard limits: physics and debt markets

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December 13, 2025
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‘Creativity is the new productivity’: Bob Iger on why Disney chose to be ‘aggressive,’ adding OpenAI as a $1 billion partner

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December 11, 2025
OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo
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OpenAI aims to silence concerns it is falling behind in the AI race with release of new model GPT-5.2

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December 11, 2025
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Lodge for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 11, 2023 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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OpenAI and Disney just ended the ‘war’ between AI and Hollywood with their $1 billion Sora deal—and OpenAI made itself ‘indispensable,’ expert says

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December 11, 2025
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Time names ‘Architects of AI’ as its 2025 Person of the Year, a year when the tech’s ‘full potential roared into view’

By Mike Catalini and The Associated Press
December 11, 2025
Sam Altman (left) with Jimmy Fallon
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Even the man behind ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is worried about the ‘rate of change that’s happening in the world right now’ thanks to AI

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December 9, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.
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Inside Silicon Valley’s ‘soup wars’: Why Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI are hand-delivering soup to poach talent

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December 3, 2025

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